It's official. 2008 isn't just the Year of the Rat and the Beijing Olympics. It's also China Panic Year. The sleeping dragon awakens, so everyone's trying to shoot it down before it wipes the gunk out of its eyes.
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China executes more citizens than the rest of the world put together: shameful, brutal and a sign of defeat. But seek factual reportage and cool analysis and you find the Cold War language of the 1960s. I don't recall China being responsible for the deaths of a million Iraqis, but the colonialist subtext is that we fiendish orientals don't value human life the way cuddly westerners do.
The protester who breached security in order to place smog masks on the Terracotta Warriors at the British Museum must've forgotten just who's been pumping carbon into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution. Let alone who's encouraging the rainforests to be destroyed in order to grow palm oil to keep their Humvees on the road.
Expect China Panic to increase in 2008 with the Beijing Olympics shoving the nation's superior economy down everyone's throat and turning us all into green-eyed monsters. It must be terrible growing up believing you were destined to rule the world forever, and then discovering you don't.
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